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Judge Donna Dutton heard the following cases on Oct 24, 2014 in Spencer District Court:

Felony:
James E. Edsell, (1973), theft by unlawful taking, all others $500 or more, amended to theft by unlawful taking under $500, guilty, two years, one year conditionally discharged, Kentucky Alternative Program, two years no contact, $ 153 court costs and fines.

Andrew J. Shoemaker of EI Segundo, California wrote recently with some good questions about his’ ancestors who were the Shoemakers and Offutts of Spencer County.
There are still several Spencer Countians who must remember the Offutts and possibly some of our Shoemakers are kin to him, so at the end of this article I am listing Andrew’s address if you’d like to write to him.

If you thought your grocery bill was sneaking up through last year, you were right. But maybe you got used to it.
Kentucky residents saw higher food prices in the last quarter of 2014, just as they did every quarter last year, and those increases amounted to a 7.6 percent hike in food prices overall in 2014, the Kentucky Farm Bureau reported.
That compares to a 3.7 percent increase nationally for food consumed at home in 2014, according to the Consumer Price Index.

I am allergic to many things and it is not just seasonal pollen…so trust me when I say don’t blame your late summer sneezes on this lovely perennial. There are about 100 species of golden rod in North America, twenty of which can be found in Kentucky. So, it is no surprise that solidago , or golden rod, is Kentucky’s official state flower.